The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission have examined the impact of seafood supply chains across national boundaries - the global seafood consumption footprint. The scientists from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) have examined the impact of seafood supply chains across national boundaries - the global seafood consumption footprint.

Global seafood consumption has more than doubled in the past 50 years, putting stress on the sustainability of fishing. Net importing nations must consider the sustainability of their trading partners' fishing practices, not just their domestic ones.

New analysis on international supply chains makes the case for international collaboration on long-term sustainability of all seafood productionTaking into consideration both food that humans consume and seafood processed for feed production, seafood consumption in EU member states equals 27 kg per head.

The highest consumption at EU level is observed in Portugal (61.5 kg per head) while outside the EU, the top consumers are Korea (78.5 kg per head) followed by Norway (66.6 kg per head).

A piece of research by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country reveals oxidative stress and death in hepatic tumour cells caused by the Vismia baccifera plant

A piece of research conducted by the Free Radicals and Oxidative Stress Group at the UPV/EHU’s Faculty of Medicine and Nursing has deciphered the antitumour mechanism exerted by the plant Vismia baccifera, originally from the Amazonian region of Colombia, in human liver cancer cells. The journal Heliyon has published the results of the study in which this plant was found to induce oxidative stress in cells, which eventually leads to cell death.

Products derived from plants are receiving increasing attention from the scientific community owing to their anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and antitumour activity. “Right now, there is huge interest in identifying compounds derived from plants that could be used as chemotherapeutic agents with the capacity to prevent tumours from growing, or to treat metastasis, for example,” explained Dr Jenifer Trepiana, member of the Free Radicals and Oxidative Stress research group at the UPV/EHU’s Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, and one of the authors of the study.